Events
An internal conflict in the U.S. fought between 1861–1865 between the North (the Union) and 11 Southern states (Confederates) over the issue of slavery
American Civil War
Decided that three-fifths of a state's enslaved population would be counted toward its total population, demonstrating the lack of humanity enslaved people were given.
3/5 Compromise
The winner of the election of 1860, a turning point towards the South's succession from the union
Abraham Lincoln
This is the name of people who fought to end slavery in America
Abolitionists
What your introduction should include that brings outside information to explain the situation of the time period
Historical Context
The conflict in which the U.S. expanded westward by gaining territories like Texas, California, and Nevada
Mexican-American War
This document decreed that "all men are created equal"
The Declaration of Independence
This person escaped from slavery and used the Underground Railroad to help other enslaved people make their way to freedom too
Harriet Tubman
The collection of cotton in the South and the production of cotton in the North in which both Northerners and Southerners profited from slave labor
Cotton Economy
A one-sentence quote from each document to support your claim
Evidence
After the election of Abraham Lincoln, several southern states left the union through a process known as...
Succession
1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved Black people were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
Dred Scott v Sandford case
A former enslaved person who escaped slavery to become one of the most powerful speakers and abolitionists in American history.
Frederick Douglass
The brutal system of forced labor where one human being legally owns another as personal property
Chattel Slavery
This relationship framework sets up an essay that explains how one of the documents presented directly led to another.
Cause and Effect
A violent conflict (1854–1859) between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
Bleeding Kansas
In 1854, this law created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave them popular sovereignty over the decision of slavery. This effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and intensified the national debate over slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This former slave who shut himself in a box for 27 hours to be shipped into freedom.
Henry "Box" Brown
This is the legal ability for the population of a territory to decide whether or not slavery should be legal once it becomes a state.
Popular Sovereignty
Analysis or Description: This quote shows how the Northerners felt remorse, as they felt responsible knowing that they profit off of the intense and inhuman conditions described.
Analysis
This purchase of territory from the French expanded US territory to a tremendous degree. The sudden expansion of land lead to many, if not all the internal conflicts of the 1800s, as the US had to reckon with how this land will be integrated into the rest of the Union.
Name 3 of the 5 pieces of the Compromise of 1850:
-California will enter the union as a free state
-Texas borders were clearly defined and shrunken
-The slave trade was made illegal in Washington D.C.
-New Mexico and Utah would enter the union under the guise of Popular Sovereignty
-The Fugitive Slave Act
This former US Senator ran against Lincoln in the 1860 election, emphasizing the power of "popular sovereignty" in opposition to Lincoln's strong anti-slavery stance.
Stephen A. Douglas
A network of secret routes and safe houses that helped an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 enslaved people escape the American South to the free states
Underground Railroad
Analysis or Description: Document 1 showcases the American Declaration of Independence, where as document 2 explains why that is false.
Description